Sporting Jowetts

Sporting Jowetts by Book

The Jowett Motor Company was born of a blacksmiths business at the turn of the Twentieth Century and for the first decade of its existence supplied small, utilitarian vehicles, mostly to the local market in Yorkshire and the north of England. Production was stopped during the First World War and resumed in 1920. The cars were never the fastest but they were rugged and the company used long distance trials to emphasise this. As well as the promotional tours. The cars became popular among enthusiastic drivers for sporting trials and rallies and by the early 1950s they were sought after and very advanced vehicles by the standards of other British makers. The author is the librarian for the Jowett Car Club and over a period of time he has collected together first hand accounts of the many tests that the cars were put through, either gleaned from club articles, period media reports or interviews with those who were involved. It makes for fascinating reading and gives a great insight into a period when motoring was often a real adventure.